RE: NetBIOS could be used as network flood amplier

["Russ" <Russ.Cooper () rc on ca>]

Its called a NetBIOS Broadcast Storm, and its 15 years old now. No need to write your own code, many manufacturers, 
like Ungermann-Bass, IBM, Tandem Computers and others all wrote code that could do this quite effectively. The only 
difference between your code and theirs is that theirs would do it when you didn't want them to.

Cheers,
Russ - NTBugtraq Editor

-----Original Message-----
From: Francesco Vigo [mailto:f.vigo () anti-idle com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:21 PM
To: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Subject: NetBIOS could be used as network flood amplier

Overview: 

Commonly used services, such as NetBIOS Name Server can be used to flood 
hosts with UDP data, sending spoofed name requests.